Chapter six
The hobbits looked around, there was no sign of the blonde haired boy…they heard footsteps approaching at a run and the blonde haired boy and a woman who looked like a toad came around the corner…
"What have you done to those boys? Why are you attacking these students? Who are you?"
"Who wants to know?" challenged Frodo
"I am professor Umbrigde high inquisitor of Hogwarts…and you are?"
"Hobbits" piped up pippin
"And that would be? Are you students?"
"No…what is a student?"
This made the Umbrigde toad maiden, stare
"Who are you? What are you doing at this school if you are not students then you cannot stay here,"
"Why not?"
"Educational decree number twenty seven," she pulled a scroll of parchment out of her bag and presented it to them, pippin took the parchment and looked at it,
"What does it say?"
"You can't read?"
"These langue rings do not cover the written tongue" intervened Frodo before pippin could put is foot any further, "we have come from a very distant land."
"so…" she smirked, "give it to me…by order of the high inquisitor of Hogwarts, Dolores umbridge no person may stay or live in Hogwarts if they are not a student or a teacher this in accordance with educational decree twenty seven…you are too young to be teachers and as you do not know what a student is I guess you are not one of them either, so you must leave…"
"And why must they?" the toad woman span around to face the expanse of grey fabric that had appeared behind her…
"Who are you? Are you allowed to be here?"
"I am a Mithrandir I go where I will"
The toad woman looked at Gandalf with a sneer
"The Mithrandir are nothing more than legends"
"The respect of the wizarding kind has lessened since last I walked this land, but allow me to assure you that even your most powerful spells will do me no harm…what is this ministry of magic?"
"It is the governing committee of this land…" Dumbledore has caught up with Gandalf, he had not been able to apparate, "there is nothing that they can do to you but to your friends I am afraid…"
"…nothing we can do to him? We could remove this man from this school like this…"
"..Be silent…toad woman…leave us now…" the woman looked at Gandalf with utter loathing but could not resist the Mithrandir's words.
When she had gone Frodo turned to Gandalf
"What are we to do?"
"this is of grave concern…while I will be able to resist this ministry it will prevent me from working as fast on the key to the return journey…however if I can find other Mithrandir then I will be able to, with their help, make this key more quickly…I will search for my kin…I hope that my search will not be I vain…while I am gone we must think of a way to prevent that toad woman from sending my companions away…"
"The hobbits are the major problem, as Gimli could probably be Hagrid's assistant, Aragorn and Boromir could either enrol at the school or become teachers as could Legolas…but the hobbits…" Dumbledore trailed off
"What of the elves of this world would they not welcome the hobbits…they were the most hospitable of creature in my day, one could expect to eat and sleep well in their halls…"
"The wizards have defiled that race they are now creatures no higher than you knee that live to serve wizard kind, we have more than three thousand working for this school as I speak…only two of them are free…and one of these has never been happy since her master freed her…"
The Mithrandir's face had darkened, "slaves??"
"Yes…"
"when my time in middle earth is done I will return to this world and I will right this wrong…but this would be an ideal hiding place for the hobbits, they would not have to work for the school, merely hide in the kitchens during the day…I am sure that this evil caused by wizarding kind has not reduce their skill at cooking…" the hobbits looked hopeful at this
"It is a good plan…although it seems rude to keep the guests in the kitchens…"
"don't worry master Dumbledore, the kitchen is a great place for hobbits to stay…so long as it is not to far above the ground" piped up pippin, this seemed to settle the matter
"…as for Legolas Boromir and Aragorn, I think that we should ask for their opinions on the matter…"
"I am afraid that they will be unable to pose as teachers…the ministry of magic is keeping a close eye on the school at this moment, we will be unable to invent a new subject in the middle of the school year…they will have to pose at student…"
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Legolas was sitting in his tree, the dwarf, Aragorn and Boromir were resting on their beds, suddenly the door opened and the three people who had escorted them to Dumbledore's office poked their heads around the door…at once Boromir and Aragorn were on their feet alert,
"Sorry…didn't mean to disturb you" the dark haired one said
"What brings you here?" asked Boromir
"We normally train in this room; in fact it is the only place where we can train without professor Umbrigde catching us…"
"The servant put a charm on this room so that it would stay like this," remarked Aragon, "but there is enough room for you to practise, over there I think…most of us feel that weapons training is very important, that is how we have such a large area"
The three entered followed by about thirty other people,
"If you are to train at this time then, we might as well join you" Legolas had come in from his tree,
"Lets, we must not allow our fighting skills to deteriorate while we are this land,"
so they started to practise their sword and axe fighting whilst the other people were practising enchanting one another, the wizards were unfortunately not very accurate with their spells and so the members of the fellowship were frequently hit by spells, fortunately for Legolas he had a high spell resistance and so he was only slightly distracted from his training but when it came to sparring he found that often in the middle of an intense duel his partner would suddenly freeze, after a while he found that this became more and more frequent, his sharp elvish hearing picked up faint laughter coming from behind him, while he waited for Aragorn to unfreeze for the twenty eighth time he looked around at the culprits and saw that it was the two red headed boys who had made the mistake of challenging merry and pippin to an eating contest, at that moment they were looking not at Legolas but at another boy who also had red hair, one said something about 'an ickle lickle prefect' before turning back to find Legolas and Aragorn staring at them.
"my friends, sorry to cause you embarrassment, but it is vitally important that we are able to practise our fighting, if we do not practise then we can not expect to live for long when we return home, I personally do not wish too die in the battle that draws near…the hobbits are returning, the Mithrandir and the head master are with them
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AN~ nasty cliff hanger there…how will the DA explain themselves, or will they escape?? How will Legolas, Boromir and Aragon take to being students?? Review and find out